Politician Training

The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley

Politics is just show business for ugly people. - Jay Leno

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. - Ralph Nader

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. - R Buckminster Fuller

Government is an endless pursuit of new ways to tax. - Unknown

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets. - Ronald Reagan

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. - Herbert Hoover

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. - H L Mencken

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenel

A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. - James Reston

An honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere. - Mark Twain

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. - Ross Perot

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I'd be honest. - Rodney Dangerfield

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. - Brian Mulroney

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. - Mikhail Bakunin

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. - John Foster Dulles

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. - Robert Frost

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. - Jules Michelet

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

Demagogue: A politician who can rock the boat and persuade everyone else that they're in a terrible storm - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. - Pericles (430 B.C.)

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. - Lysander Spooner

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. - Charles de Gaulle

It's especially hard if the government is not providing services, or is even conducting ethnic cleansing against you. - Paul Harvey

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. - Lyndon B. Johnson

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. - George MacDonald

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. - Voltaire

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. - John W. Gardner

Our ancestors believed in magic, prayers, trickery, browbeating and bullying. I think it would be fair to sum that up as 'Irish politics'. - Flann O'Brien